Woody's build thread

[itsnotanova]

Earlier in the thread I posted some pictures of the aftermarket front caster control arms I was using. I had one break on me very easily and I rewelded it back together. I had a friend who has used these on his race car tell me I should also drill the back side and weld there too. It sounds like a good idea so I followed his advice. I first drilled out until I reached the shaft.

I then turned up the mig and laid some deep penetrating welds.


I spent today loading my truck and trailer full of boxster parts. I'm taking my 3.4 to a friend of mine up in Dallas to install the IMS Pro. I believe he's the only person in Texas who's certified to be an installer for the LN IMS Solution. He can do the IMS in his sleep so I'll let him do it. I work on these things because I have to but I don't enjoy the mechanical side as much. I'd rather paint a car than rebuild a motor.
I let it be known in the racing community that I was coming up there and I got swamped with orders. This is going to be a big Saturday for me. I have three shops and my friends mancave to deliver parts to . One shop is at a race track and I was told if I get there early enough, he would take me out on it.:dance: I'll take some pic.

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The first stop was my friend's place where we replaced the ims with a LN IMS Pro. For those who have the single row ims, you're not going to replace that bearing with the pro unless you have the special tool created by LN engineering! While there my friend sold me a 4 inch under drive pulley that is suppose to give you back 10 hp(tested by Jake Raby on his dyno). It also slows down the power steering pump which is known to overheat and boil the fluid.

I had to grind down the block a little for it to fit

Here's a the factory and aftermarket comparison. Behind that you will notice the arena red hardtop I traded with Rick.

We met at the shop that was getting the red boxster body to fix two spec boxsters. Here's Rick on the right talking to the owner of the shop. I only got this one shot but there's more to the left.

A real 914-6 straight out of the 70-80's

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I think I win today's redneck engineering award. I normally don't have to get the car this high to get the motor out. My table lift has an engine and transmission on it so I used my transmission jack instead. It looks scarier than it really is.

Then I lower the car and raise the jack.


This is where I'm curious what other people have done when using aftermarket headers. On the 1997-99 boxsters and the 996's, the O2 sensors are connected to the secondary pipe. One is before the cat and the other O2 is after the cat. The 2000-04 have the O2's on the exhaust manifold/pre-cat. These exhaust headers give you two O2 bungs per side, but one has a horrible angle. What I did was I used the secondary pipe from a 99 and used the first bung for the second O2 sensor. Curious for opinions?